What is the test for determining whether an employer is liable for an employee's alcohol consumption during the course of their employment?

As these cases (and the one before us) illustrate, the employer's liability is premised upon a sufficient showing that the employee's consumption of alcohol was a customary incident of the employment and was sufficiently of benefit to the employer to fall within the "scope of employment." (Rodgers v. Kemper Constr. Co., supra, 50 Cal.App.3d at p. 620, 124 Cal.Rptr. 143.) Once the risk (the consumption of alcohol) is shown to have been created within the

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